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Originally Posted by Dragyn
That signature gear makes me a little ill. :)
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Tricked out to look inconspicuous.
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As for the friendship, perhaps a young Master Hayes came to the US with his family for a time during his teens, and you met in school, then he went back to the UK, grew up, and became a successful journalist.
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That might work.
I figure my character is the son of an Irishman and the sister of another low-level mafia member, and he was only able to get in because of his uncle, though he has never been able to rise through the ranks because of his parentage.
He's done some time for a robbery he was involved in, and they could definitely get him for a RICO violation if they ever looked into him too closely. He lives upstate now and raises bees. He got interested in honey after they helped smuggle in a shipment of the gourmet stuff back in the late nineties. They keep him upstate as their car guy now, and he does work mostly with shipments.
He was in the army for a while in the nineties as well, between the gulf war and the return to Iraq, so during the boring years. But he could have met a reporter during that time, if he was stationed somewhere. But our reporter here looks to be too young. He's only twenty-nine, whereas my guy is about thirty-six. I guess I could change that to make it work, but if you want us to be childhood friends, that's not going to be easy. Looking at Richard's skills, I see that he has Savoir-Faire (Mafia). Maybe my guy did a job in England and that's how they met? I'd be pretty interested in learning how an Englishman got such high Guns skills. No easy access to pistols over in England is there?
So, let's say the Englishman moved to the US a long time ago, and he grew in the same neighborhood as my character. Maybe he was even involved in some low-level mafia operations in his youth, perhaps with my character.